Prince Philip has died aged 99
 

RIP Sir

Bon Voyage, and thanks for the laconic humour that will not be forgotten.

Well 99 isn't bad!!:yep: R.I.P.

I just saw this... what a shock. I'm thinking of her... I'm no royalist but they've been in my life since I was born. Very moved and even a bit tearful for a moment there

RIP your Royal Highness.

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RIP

RIP

I knew you not, but heard of you many times Prince Philip RIP

R.I.P Your Highness

RIP Prince Phillip

Did not know that he had so much difficulties, as a child and later in England. He sure grew into the role and became a backbone of "The Firm", while still remaining his own self. Rest in Peace, Prince Philip.

Ninety nine's a good innings, pity he didn't get to see his 100th birthday though.

Mike.

Good documentary on him on German TV, made me feeling even greater respect for him.


I also recalled two British students (at that time there still was a British garrison in Osnabrück) in Germany who never were aware of how close the relations between German and British noble houses were and are. When I told them (Victoria + Albert, Elizabeth II and Philip), they reacted first with disbelief, then with anger, and then did not talk with me again for weeks. :D How must it have been for Philip after WWII. He had to bite his way through it.

Yes.. also the Personal Union, the Kingdom of Hannover being part of the british throne and crown. The inhabitants of Hannover really believed their city would not be bombed in WW2 due to the city's close ties to England. It was not exactly made public that England had declared a total war already in 1939. As Skybird would say "stupid germans".

I knew that Philip was of German descendence, but I did not know that "Mountbatten" is the Anglification of the German family name Battenberg (Berg=mount). :)

I hope you did not tell the students that, or that the "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" family in England changed their name to "Windsor" in WW1, due to the annoying Gotha biplane bombers and anti-german sentiment.
German William 2nd, with a wink, promptly "threatened" to perform the "Merry Wives of Windsor" as "Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg Gotha".

99 years old. A good run. RIP.

This remind me of a series called something with Cousin in/at war on our Viasat History channel some years ago.

It was about the royalist in Russia, Germany, UK and some other European country before, during and after WWI.

I hope they will make a rerun of this series, because I didn't see it from first episode.

Markus

Sad news.


R.I.P., sir.